Trump Reverses Biden’s Migrant Economy as New Jobs Go to Americans

In less than five months, President Donald Trump has reversed a trend that accelerated under former President Joe Biden — mainly that nearly all new jobs went to foreign-born workers who had recently arrived in the United States.

The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data reveals that since Trump took office in late January, all net job growth has gone to native-born Americans.

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Compared to May last year, when Biden was still president, nearly 1.4 million more native-born Americans held jobs in May of this year, a total reversal of labor trends.

Similarly, the BLS data shows that the number of foreign-born workers who have left the U.S. workforce totals about a million from March to May of this year

“That was the biggest two-month decline in the foreign-born labor force since the early days of the pandemic,” the Wall Street Journal notes. “Some economists pointed to that decline as an indication that more unauthorized workers are exiting the labor force.”

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